After the torments of opus 1 (May Peace Be With You) and the passage to the Beyond (Rest Your Soul), opus 3 sees this female character back on earth at the seaside... A rebirth of Aphrodite, or more precisely of Iemanjà, set to African music and aesthetic effects - pastels and paints - that intermittently color the character, as if to show her transfiguration through art.
At once real (when in flesh and blood she dances for the camera) and iridescent (when for a few seconds here and there she becomes an animated painting), the character I embody fundamentally evokes the in-between or threshold: like the place where she is (the beach) and thanks to the particular construction of the frame that positions her in the beyond of the seaside.While the upper body is visible against a pastel sky of birds and cherubs, the lower body is still in the matrix waters. To be alive is above all to be on the threshold, to know oneself to be on the threshold.The opus - which ends with May Peace Be With You - seems to evoke a cycle, referring back to opus 1, which will itself be followed by opus 2. But this video, which closes the cycle, allows for another reading: who's to say we're not caught up in the agonizing imagination of the character who feared death in May Peace Be With You, then interviewed herself serenely (Rest your Soul) before imagining her unreal return?
